Chw from DSB has been invited to speak at the Burning Man Global Leadership Conference this April in SF! He will be talking about FAFATL – the Free Art Friday Art Movement / Gifted Art Movement here in Atlanta! He will be working with a number of Artists around ATL to provide a large number of Art pieces to take with him to BMHQ and to be gifted at the event!

DSB was recently asked by Transformus about what they do, outside the Burn!!! Needless to say, we were happy to answer!

DSB was founded in 06 and has grown from a small camp, to a village, to a movement all its own. We looked around and said we were all a bunch of Dirty Southern Burners… and it stuck! Phyrebolt and Chw started growing DSB into what it is today. In Atlanta, we have been very active since we started the Dirty Southern Burners camp/movement/way of life. We have been hosting Meet-n-Greets (MnG’s) in the Atl area since 05. We, and a small group of friends, started the Atlanta SantaCon event, which now draws around 1000 people and raises money Continue reading DSB, Outside the Burns→

Sat Dec 20th!!! This will be our 10th annual DSB/BWBGA SantaCon in ATL!!!! FB Event. We will be hosting a Can Food Drive for Lost & Found Youth, located by the Vortex in the parking lot, and Cameli’s Pizza will be hosting a canned food drive for pets for Animal Savers Rescue! We will also be collecting donations from local bars that we frequent – these bars that donate will have “WELCOME SANTA SIGNS” on their doors/windows!!! This year’s supported charities are Lost-n-Found Youth and BWBGA. Burners Without Borders- GA will be collecting money at the event for some of our 2014 projects so if you see someone with a BWB – GA Bucket give them some cash if you can!! To see more of what BWBGA is up to go to http://www.bwbga.org/ ! AND BRING CANNED FOOD for both people and pets!! Front Page News will be hosting a Toys for Tots for the event!! So bring you unopened, wrapped toys there! Thank you to Front Page News for hosting this!!

We shut down our Apparel orders about 2 weeks ago. We got the items ordered and have the screen printer doing the prep and making the order this week. We should be shipping everything out by the end of this week and beginning of next!

We have left the FUNdraiser open for everyone to still have access to the items we have left. We have changed the prices on a few things, added more stickers to our sticker packs. And we will have a small number of apparel items that will be for sale that we have either printed ourselves or had left over from this and previous FUNdraisers!

The Free Art Movement (or Free Art Friday (FAF) ) has been very popular in various cities around the US and the world! The Free Art Movement really aligns with the principles we align our group with (the 10 Burning Man Principles). From Radical Self Expression, Radical Inclusion, Decommodification, Civic Responsibility and Communal Effort to Gifting, Participation, Leave no Trace and Immediacy. You can see the Free Art Friday is a movement that is growing quickly!! Atlanta started out doing FAFATL a few years ago, with just a few Artists, but has now gotten to where you can find folks dropping free Art almost any day of the week, though not every day. It just depends on the Artists schedule, really. Plus there must be 100 Artists if not more. Not all of them drop on a regular basis, and others drop Art as soon as they have it made and can find a place to hide it and post a pic on IG or Twitter to create the scavenger hunt that is FAFATL!

Hey everyone! Hope all are getting prepared and getting ready to pARTicipate!! Before every gets out on the Mtn, I wanted to let you know about a little Art Collaboration we (DSB) have with EVEREMAN from Atlanta, that we are bringing to Transformus! You can find his TEDxPeachtree talk on his website (www.evereman.com), but this awesome friend has been giving out free Art in Atlanta for over a decade!!! He has been awesome enough to let DSB do this collab to bring some of his free Art to you, in Mysteria!! Continue reading Evereman & DSB Collaborations at Transformus!→

We hope all finds everyone well! We are getting busy here at DSBHQ!! Doing some test runs on some new apparel, we are doing the screen printing this go round and will have some new colors of shirts available! We are also adding some awesome swag and get getting some custom buttons & magnets together (that we are making also) and going to start taking pictures of it all as we get our shop setup!! Continue reading Gearing up for our upcoming FUNdraiser!!→

“I want to also thank the Dirty Southern Burners, who are one of the first groups who self identify across city & state lines. So we really, watching what you guys did, began to get us thinking about what is a Region, is it a city & state? You guys broadened the perspective. So I want to thank you for that, you got us thinking in new ways about what does it mean? And it’s particularly interesting now, is that people are working across international boundaries now, what does it mean now?” ~ $teven Ra$pa, Burning Man Regional Network Committee Continue reading Quote from Ra$pa about the DSB Movement→